Example sentences of "that [pron] were [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , Val I think you are quite right in thinking that you are not alone in feeling let down after purchasing the ‘ wrong ’ computer for your needs and I do agree that you were given poor advice by the store you purchased from . |
| 2 | Take some pills that you were given last night . |
| 3 | Take some pills that you were given last night . |
| 4 | It did not escape my notice , however , that you were accompanied last night by a rather large , rather muddy man who , I gathered from hints dropped from various quarters , had been your escort that evening . |
| 5 | That we were watching last night . |
| 6 | I know now it was our believing that we were fulfilling some end , serving some plan — that all would come out well in the end , because there was some great plan over all . |
| 7 | I crouched down so that we were eyeballing each other and began to pull funny faces , the sort of expressions you do in traffic jams when you do n't think anyone 's watching . |
| 8 | I was gon na be happy to move the recommendation sir and anyone who 's aware of the traffic problem in London Road Brandon will , will support that and also sir the figures that in the questionnaire that was sent out support route A , emphatically because you 'll notice that double the people er double the number who returned the questionnaire supported route A as opposed to any of the other alternatives , so , so I think the , the recommendation that we were to accept this morning 's various adequately worded and , and accepted . |
| 9 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
| 10 | The news broke that we were to have another squadron of Pathfinders , but these were going to be crack troops flying Mosquitoes , a much smaller aircraft than the good old faithful Lancaster , and much faster . |
| 11 | You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year . |
| 12 | And the announcement that we were having that visit . |
| 13 | Dan man you 've got th Dan you know the tape that we were recording last night , you 've got ta hear it yeah there 's this bit , yeah , where erm Alex just walks off yeah with the Walkman yeah and he goes into the toilet |
| 14 | Surprising when you consider that it 's ‘ not so very long ago ’ that they were eating each other ( laughter ) . |
| 15 | Bolognese lawyers were so important to both the papal and imperial parties in supplying them with lawyers to staff their governments and administrations that they were given special protection . |
| 16 | She tells how the women came to the factory beaten by their husbands and how some were scared to be downgraded in their work because they feared a beating from husbands who would think that they were holding some money back . |
| 17 | And the Magistrate , watching like a stoat , could see by the alarm on their faces that they were assigning this treatment to Dr McNab for no other reason than that he had happened to mention it . |
| 18 | ‘ It is an open secret that they were seeing each other regularly until all hell broke loose back in the summer , ’ said a source close to Camilla last night . |
| 19 | Secondly , this decline in fertility did occur in depressed industrial towns and among industrial groups whose prospects of unemployment were high and whose access to the ‘ acquisitive way of life ’ must have been limited by the fact that they were receiving some form of unemployment or health benefit and struggling to survive . |
| 20 | Their punishment was that they were to walk bare foot behind the procession on the following Sunday , but instead of one taper they had to carry four tapers ( value 2d ) and there they should offer two at the High Altar , and two at the Altar of St. John . |
| 21 | The idea of village tribunals was attractive to many British officials who thought that they were resurrecting ancient village institutions . |
| 22 | Either the US could allow themselves to be convinced that they were fighting one war , in Vietnam and Korea ; that with practically unlimited US military and economic assistance the French could defeat the main Vietminh forces in Tonkin ; and that revolution or insurgency could be contained in the rest of the country . |
| 23 | A group was taught to choose the right coloured plastic ball ( one gave an electric shock , the other brought food ) and individuals were then able to instruct the other Octopi , who indicated by rapid eye and head movements that they were paying close attention , before successfully completing the task . |
| 24 | Mr. and Mrs. Harvey , the master and matron , were both away on sick leave in the early months of 1900 , and the Board received a letter from their general practitioner , Mr. C. G.Johnson , to say that they were making good progress and that he recommended continuing the champagne which had contributed to their recovery . |
| 25 | Kurdish leaders announced on Nov. 12 , following meetings with government ministers in Baghdad , that they were withdrawing all guerrilla forces south of Arbil , in northern Iraq , in exchange for an end to the three-week long economic blockade [ see also p. 38548 ] . |
| 26 | ‘ The confidential papers I have seen demonstrate that what were called various tax benefits were central to negotiations . |